I've been performing and recording music with an electronic project I fondly named Lazerstar for the past 2 years. The idea came to me when I was out of town doing a show over the weekend in Athens, Ga. I was still performing under the name of my old Pych/Pop band Purple of Cassius and I'd been trying to think of something that would fit the type of music and concept of an outer space electropop glam rocker. So of course Lazerstar came to me in a fantastic vision of quantum mechanical inspiration.
I'd been sequencing synthesizers for a while by the time I started this project but now I was armed with an MPC2000, the ultimate sequencer/sampler and two analog synthesizers from the mid eighties. I started to dive into a different texture with sounds and was heavily influenced by the David Bowie album Low.
There are so many different methods of creating electronic music that it can become somewhat disconcerting if you don't find a process and then stick with it. I wanted to bounce through so many styles and usually did but eventually it became very apparent what sound my style adhered to.
It's been a long time since the first true Lazerstar performance and now with a short but extremely dense electropop album finished I find myself looking to take on more projects, spread the pop network. I'd performed a lot at the TSI with Brendon Clark running my sound and we found new ways to improve the signal and experiment with the live mix so it was a natural feeling to work with Brendon on a new project of epic proportion called CPTEO.
We started sequencing and producing material for a full length album about nine months ago in late 2007. Working with someone else who is savvy with electronic music and instruments has been a learning experience and a breath of fresh air. I've slowly evolved my current setup to try and compliment our sound and help with the production of live insanity as much as possible.
There are some people who you can just click with and collaborate and there are some people you really have to work at it with. CPTEO has been a love project for two electro geeks who just love to program synths and sequences. We have a brand new single that when it's finished is going to hit Jacksonville hard and I can't wait for the live shows to start.
Our live concerts will be chosen very carefully with full attention the venue and possibility for sound and light coordination. We will be performing basically an entire suite of gapless songs that will morph and groove into each other as we twist knobs, jam ivory, and rock guitars. You can look forward to seeing some of the first CPTEO shows in early September and make sure to check out the myspace for the new CPTEO single Plastic Hands.
Also be sure to check out the brand new single She's So Tough" from the forthcoming Lazerstar album entitled The Quest for the SynthCalibur.
Oh and one more thing...Purple of Cassius Returns...
There are so many different methods of creating electronic music that it can become somewhat disconcerting if you don't find a process and then stick with it. I wanted to bounce through so many styles and usually did but eventually it became very apparent what sound my style adhered to.
It's been a long time since the first true Lazerstar performance and now with a short but extremely dense electropop album finished I find myself looking to take on more projects, spread the pop network. I'd performed a lot at the TSI with Brendon Clark running my sound and we found new ways to improve the signal and experiment with the live mix so it was a natural feeling to work with Brendon on a new project of epic proportion called CPTEO.
We started sequencing and producing material for a full length album about nine months ago in late 2007. Working with someone else who is savvy with electronic music and instruments has been a learning experience and a breath of fresh air. I've slowly evolved my current setup to try and compliment our sound and help with the production of live insanity as much as possible.
There are some people who you can just click with and collaborate and there are some people you really have to work at it with. CPTEO has been a love project for two electro geeks who just love to program synths and sequences. We have a brand new single that when it's finished is going to hit Jacksonville hard and I can't wait for the live shows to start.
Our live concerts will be chosen very carefully with full attention the venue and possibility for sound and light coordination. We will be performing basically an entire suite of gapless songs that will morph and groove into each other as we twist knobs, jam ivory, and rock guitars. You can look forward to seeing some of the first CPTEO shows in early September and make sure to check out the myspace for the new CPTEO single Plastic Hands.
Also be sure to check out the brand new single She's So Tough" from the forthcoming Lazerstar album entitled The Quest for the SynthCalibur.
Oh and one more thing...Purple of Cassius Returns...
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